Posted on 08/27/2022 9:36:20 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A New Zealand news anchor fired back at a viewer who she said has repeatedly complained about her traditional face tattoos.
Oriini Kaipara, who co-hosts the political current affairs show "Newshub Nation," shut down the remarks from a viewer who she said emailed her and described her tattoos as “offensive and aggressive looking” and a “bad look.” The viewer’s comments come after Kaipara made history last year as the first person with a moko kauae, a cultural tattoo worn by Māori women, to anchor a prime-time news program.
“Please refrain from complaining further, and restrain your cultural ignorance and bias for another lifetime, preferably in the 1800s,” Kaipara wrote in an email to the viewer, according to a screenshot of the message posted to her Instagram stories on Wednesday.
Kaipara, who has had the tattoo on her chin since 2019, also condemned the discrimination and harassment that people with the traditional moko marking endure.
The Māori people are an Indigenous and Polynesian group in New Zealand. In Māori culture, the sacred chin tattoo symbolizes a transition from girl to adulthood.
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Applause.
My mother’s stance that she always used to guide her children was that people who got tattoos did so before they matured and regretted them or they were just stupid.
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In grade school the sisters forbade students to have any form of tattoo, citing Leviticus 19:28 (Amplified) which says, “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print or tattoo any marks upon you.” That was 72 years ago, and to this day nobody in my extended family (over 50 adults and children) has a tattoo. We feel it looks trashy and demeaning to have them.
Whatever, it's certainly not a topic worth debating beyond a single comment.......
Do you think those tribal rituals might have been around long before they even heard of what a bible is?
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Undoubtedly true, but what’s your point?
I don’t care what she looks like now or in 20 years. I said, imagine what she’s going to look like in 20 years. Can’t you read?
I don’t care what you look like now or in 20 years. But I’ll bet you’re butt ugly with a confrontational attitude like yours.
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LOL! Well said!
I guess the circle I run in is not that avant guarde. I have to expand my horizons.
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LOL! You’re running in a circle?? Better see your doctor about that right away!
I’ve laughed at that 5 or 6 times now.
That’s the thread winner!
We used to see lots of Nigerian men with facial scarification. Nigeria outlawed scarring children a couple of decades ago, and I guess you’ll only see it on old people, now.
My view is people are free to do stupid things and I am free to say they’re stupid.
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Exactly describes my own view. I just ordered two books at the local library on the “natural science” of stupidity. Now waiting anxiously for their arrival! Also enjoy reading about the Dunning-Kruger effect. Google it!
Is it really “healthy” to be obsessive about other people’s appearances?
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Of course not, and I agree with all the points made in your post. However I don’t believe any of those points proscribe how a person may negatively THINK or FEEL about the appearance of other people. On the other hand, outwardly expressing such feelings is another matter altogether, and is usually in conflict with the virtue of charity.
Ah! I uncovered a literalist!
Not judging by their looks - what they were given by God.
God didn’t put those clothes on them or the nose ring or the green ink. That was their choice. Thus can judgement be made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8
Those aren't known to be culturally related, which was the point I was making.
You got all that out of a picture? I read the article. There's nothing in it that describes her political leanings.
If you're trying to justify what the U.S. government did to the Native Americans who existed in this country at that time, or what the British did to the Scots, Irish, Welsh, and the rest of the people in countries they colonized, please hold your breath.
Biology has nothing to do with cultural symbols, or the heritage they are connected to. And in today's world, liberals don't believe in biology, or that it should even exist, or be taught.
Let me rephrase. She looks like AOC. Nothing to do with politics.
Whatever floats your boat.
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